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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
I would say yes. you think those comments would have been made if it was a white person?
I 100% believe it was based on her being an indigenous person.
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This line of rhetorical questioning is often used in place of evidence that certain behaviour was racist in its intent. What reason do you have to not believe that anyone could be mistreated, regardless of their race?
The same thing was said following George Floyd's death, that this would never happen to a white person. That of course is not true. A white person could have been killed just as George Floyd was, the only difference is that we likely would not hear about it.
None of this is to excuse the abhorrent behaviour of these nurses. I just think it sets us on a dangerous path when we call things racist before we have any evidence of racism.